gum

noun

/ɡʌm/

Etymology

From Middle English gom, gome, gomme, goome, gum, gume, gumme, from Old English gōma (“palate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōmō, from Proto-Germanic *gaumô, *gōmô (“palate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape, yawn”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian gaumo (“palate”), German Gaum, Gaumen (“palate”), Luxembourgish Gomm, Gumm (“palate”), Yiddish גומען (gumen, “palate”), Danish gumme (“gums”), Icelandic gómur (“gum”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gom (“palate”); also Latin hio (“to gape, yawn”), Ancient Greek χάσκω (kháskō, “to gape, yawn”), Lithuanian gomurỹs (“palate”), Bulgarian зе́я (zéja, “to gape”), Czech zát, zet (“to gape”), Polish ziać (“to pant”), Russian зия́ть (zijátʹ, “to gape, yawn”), Serbo-Croatian зи́јати, zíjati (“to gape, yawn”), Ukrainian зя́яти (zjájaty, “to gape”), Tocharian A koy- (“mouth”), Tocharian B koyn (“mouth”). More at yawn.

derived from qmy
derived from κόμμι
derived from cummi
derived from gumma
derived from gome
inherited from gomme

Definitions

The flesh around the teeth.
To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
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1. 4
  A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it…
  A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
  - gum arabic
  - gum-oleo-resin
2. 5
  Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
  - gum benzoin
  - […] becoomed wi' the gum o' the coal-hill […]
3. Chewing gum.
4. 7
  A single piece of chewing gum.
  - Do you have a gum to spare?
  - Levi unwrapped a gum and put it in his mouth.
5. A gummi candy.
6. A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree
  A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
7. A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
8. A rubber overshoe.
9. A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
10. 13
  To apply an adhesive or gum to
  To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
  - However, Albert said in his audiotape and in his speech that a lever designed to release the lifeboat's block and tackle was gummed up with red paint.
11. 14
  To stiffen with glue or gum.
  - He frets like a gummed velvet.
12. 15
  To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
  - It consists in gumming together long strips of words [that] have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.
13. 16
  To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
  - That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.
  - The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.
14. Initialism of genitourinary medicine.
15. Initialism of GUM (department store).
16. A surname.

The neighborhood

neighborgumma
neighborgummatous
neighborgummic acid
neighborgummiferous
neighborgummite
neighborgummose
neighborgummosis
neighborgummosity
neighborgummous

Derived

acacia gum, acaroid gum, accaroid gum, accroides gum, apple-gum, arabic gum, art gum, Barbary gum, bee gum, begum, black gum, blue gum, box-gum, British gum, bubble gum, bubble-gum, bubblegum, cabbage gum, Cape gum, carob gum, chagual gum, chewing gum, chicle gum, cider gum, cow gum, cushion gum, dammar gum, degum, doctor-gum, doctor's gum, elastic gum, estergum, flooded gum, floodgum, free gum, fuchsia gum, gellan gum, ghatti gum, ghost gum, grey gum · +182 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at gum. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at gum. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at gum

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA